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Home Institute of Egyptian Art & Archaeology Staff Joshua A. Roberson, Ph.D.

Joshua A. Roberson, Ph.D.

Joshua Roberson

Associate Professor of Art History
Assistant Director

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, 2007


Address:
Department of Art and Design
University of Memphis
202 Art & Communication Bldg.
Memphis, TN 38152-3140

E-mail:
Joshua.Roberson@Memphis.edu

Telephone:
901.678.3895

Dr. Roberson is Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of Art and Design and a member of the Institute of Egyptian Art & Archaeology at the University of Memphis. He teaches Middle and Late Egyptian language and offers courses on ancient Egyptian literature, history and archaeology.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Egyptian Underworld Books, and related cosmological and mortuary literature; ancient Egyptian language and cryptography; seals and sealing practice; digital epigraphy and 3D tomb modeling.

 

PUBLICATIONS:

Monographs:

  • Ramesside Inscriptions: Historical and Biographical, vol. IX. Wallasey, UK, Abercromby Press, 2018.
  • The Awakening of Osiris and the Transit of the Solar Barques: Royal Apotheosis in a Most Concise Book of the Underworld and Sky. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis vol. 262. Freibourg, Vandehoeck & Rupprech, 2013.
  • The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Earth. Brown University, Wilbour Studies in Egypt and Ancient Western Asia vol. 1.  Atlanta, Lockwood Press, 2012.
  • "The seal impressions."  In Guillaume Charloux, Raphaël Angevin, Sylvia Marchand, Hervé Monchot, Agnès Oboussier, Joshua Roberson, and Hélène Virenque, Le parvis du temple d'Opet à Karnak. Exploration archéologique (2006–2007), Travaux du Centre franco-égyptien d'étude des temples de Karnak, Bibliothèque générale 41 (Cairo 2012), 125-144.


Select Articles:

  • "Chapter 21: The Royal Funerary Books." In K. Weeks and R. Wilkinson (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Valley of the Kings (Oxford 2016, in press).
  • "A New Nautical Idiom for Hoisting Sails (in the Underworld)?" In Göttinger Miszellen, 233 (2012), 43–50
  • "The Trampled Foe: Two New Examples of a Rare Amuletic Form." In Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 96 (2010), 219–222.
  • "Observations on the so-called 'sw sḏm=f,' or Middle Egyptian Proclitic Pronoun Construction." In Z. Hawass and J. Wegner (eds.), Millions of Jubilees: Studies in Honor of David P. Silverman (SASAE 39, vol. 2, Cairo 2010), 185–205.
  • "A Solar Litany from the Tomb of Ramesses IX" In Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, 45 (2009), 227–232.
  • "Inside or at Home? An Observation on Syntax in the Serpent's Prophesy, Shipwrecked Sailor 167–69." In Göttinger Miszellen, 222 (2009), 51–55.
  • "The Early History of "New Kingdom" Netherworld Iconography: A Late Middle Kingdom Apotropaic Wand Reconsidered." In D.P. Silverman, W.K. Simpson, and J. Wegner (eds.), Archaism and Innovation: Studies in the Culture of Middle Kingdom Egypt (New Haven 2009), 427–445
  • "The Rebirth of the Sun: Mortuary Art and Architecture in the Royal Tombs of New Kingdom Egypt." In Expedition, 50/2 (2008), 14–25.
  • "An Enigmatic Wall from the Cenotaph of Seti I at Abydos." In Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, 43 (2007), 93–112.


Field Projects:

  • Since 2014, Dr. Roberson has served as the seal-impressions analyst for the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo (DAIK) expedition Lebenswirklichkeiten - Eine Synthese von Archäologie und Naturwissenschaften ("Realities of Life - A Synthesis of Archaeology and the Natural Sciences"), at Elephantine Island in Aswan, Egypt.